… And this “quality” Arizona education leadership makes us “bottom-barrel” and from this they expect quality employers will choose to move and open business in Arizona … I suppose for Duce/Douglas “quality” employers are private for profit prison … and those like Hickman eggs that take advantage of “cheap” prison labor … where are the “thinkers” … the “high tech” … the highly skilled jobs … don’t see them rushing to Arizona to take advantage of our “skilled” educated labor pool…?

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Report: AZ Leads Nation in Higher Education Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s state spending cuts to colleges and universities are the highest in the nation, and have meant much higher tuition costs for students and families, according to a report out today (Wednesday). Comments from Michael Mitchell, policy analyst and report co-author, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Image available: Photo of a college graduation ceremony.

The Vatican said Wednesday that it had concluded a treaty to recognize Palestinian statehood, a symbolic but significant step that was bound to be welcomed by many Palestinians but was likely to cause deep concern for the Israeli government.

Formal recognition of a Palestinian state by the Vatican, which has deep religious interests in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories that include Christian holy sites, lends a powerful signal of legitimacy to the efforts by the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, to achieve statehood despite the long paralyzed Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Israel has grown increasingly alarmed about the increased international acceptance of Palestine as a state since the United Nations upgraded the Palestinian delegation’s status in 2012 to that of a nonmember observer state. A number of European countries have also signaled their acceptance of Palestinian statehood.

Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s 1 billion Catholics, has long signaled his wish for a Palestinian state. For the past year, the Vatican had informally referred to the country as “state of Palestine,” in its yearbook as well as in its program for Francis’ 2014 visit to the Holy Land.

A statement from a joint commission of Vatican and Palestinian diplomatic officials, posted on the Vatican news website, said “the work of the Commission on the text of the agreement has been concluded,” and that it will be submitted for formal approval and for signing “in the near future.”

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SENATE DEMOCRATS BLOCK FAST TRACK FOR TRADE DEAL "Democrats, including several who favor Obama’s trade agenda, banded together to prevent the Senate from considering legislation that grants the president so-called Trade Promotion Authority, which would bar Congress from amending or filibustering trade agreements negotiated by the administration." And Sen. Sherrod Brown called out President Obama for his treatment of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the debate. [Michael McAuliff, Laura Barron-Lopez, Zach Carter and Dana Liebelson, HuffPost]

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Take heart, NSA. Millennials might be opposed to your mass surveillance programs more than any other age group, but there’s evidence to suggest they could be flipped.

In a poll that defies all logic and reason based on previous polling, Gallup found that 44 percent of millennials trust that businesses are keeping their personal information private all or most of the time — more than any other generation. Just 26 percent say they don’t really trust said businesses — the lowest among all generations.

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While Jeb Bush can say whatever he wants about being a "moderate," he is ultimately as extremist as they come, and if elected president, he’ll run this country just like his dad and brother did. …Read the Article

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